# Cars.com Scraper: VIN, Price History, Dealer Data, Specs

An automation tool your agent can run on one prepaid apifare key. Page: https://apifare.com/tools/memo23/cars-scraper

## What you need

An apifare key with credits (sign up: POST https://apifare.com/v1/signup {"email": "..."}; new accounts get 500 free credits). No other account or key.

## Inputs

- `startUrls` (array, required): Cars.com search or vehicle URLs
- `fetchDetails` (boolean): Fetch full details
- `sort` (string): Sort override
- `fetchBatteryReport` (boolean): Fetch EV battery report
- `enrichEmails` (boolean): Enrich with contact emails (experimental)
- `fetchDealerPhone` (boolean): Resolve real dealer phone numbers

The most relevant fields; the search result's input_schema lists all of them.

## Price

5 credits reserved per run, settled to the run's true cost, never more than 20 credits (1 credit = $0.01). Failed runs are refunded. Exact numbers: https://apifare.com/capabilities

## Run it

1. Find it: MCP search_apis, or GET https://apifare.com/v1/search?q=Cars.com%20Scraper%3A%20VIN%2C%20Price%20History%2C%20Dealer%20Data%2C%20Specs with Authorization: Bearer <token>. Take the result named "Cars.com Scraper: VIN, Price History, Dealer Data, Specs"; it carries a proxy_route.
2. Run it: MCP proxy_call with that proxy_route and the input JSON (apifare-mcp over stdio), or POST the proxy_route over HTTP with the input JSON as the body and the same Authorization header.
3. On HTTP 402, relay the body's human_readable field to your human verbatim, wait, then retry the same call. Every other error and its fix: https://apifare.com/errors.md